CVE-2023-22522: Atlassian Confluence Data Center

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 12.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

This Template Injection vulnerability allows an authenticated attacker, including one with anonymous access, to inject unsafe user input into a Confluence page. Using this approach, an attacker is able to achieve Remote Code Execution (RCE) on an affected instance. Publicly accessible Confluence Data Center and Server versions as listed below are at risk and require immediate attention. See the advisory for additional details Atlassian Cloud sites are not affected by this vulnerability. If your Confluence site is accessed via an atlassian.net domain, it is hosted by Atlassian and is not vulnerable to this issue.

Affected products

• Atlassian Confluence Data Center: from 4.0, before 7.19.17 (fixed in 7.19.17); from 8.0.0, before 8.4.5 (fixed in 8.4.5); from 8.5.0, before 8.5.4 (fixed in 8.5.4); from 8.6.0, before 8.6.2 (fixed in 8.6.2); version 8.7.0 only
• Atlassian Confluence Server: from 4.0, before 7.19.17 (fixed in 7.19.17); from 8.0.0, before 8.4.5 (fixed in 8.4.5); from 8.5.0, before 8.5.4 (fixed in 8.5.4)

Published 2023-12-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.